Hose-nozzle



(No Model.)

P. G. LEWIS.

, HOSE NOZZLE.

No. 269,217. Patented Dec. 19, 1882..

N4 PETERS, Fholo-Lllhugnpher, Wuhingwn, DC.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PEARL 0. LEWIS, OF OATSKILL, NEW YORK.

HOSE-NOZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,217, dated December 19, 1882 (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PEARL ULIN'roN LEWIS, of Catskill, in the county of Greene and State of New York, have invented certain new and usel'nl Improvements in Hose-Nozzles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the'same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to furnish a nozzle which will produce either a solid stream or a spray at pleasure and instantaneously without making it necessary to detach from or add to any part of the nozzlea desideratum of considerable importance, because when one has a hose in use and desires to change the water from solid stream to spray, or vice-versa, it is awkward to have to shut- 011' the water and unscrew one tip and screw on another, as is the case with the nozzles in common use; and,

besides, the separate parts are always liable to displacement and loss.

The drawings show a nozzle provided with my spray-deflector, Figure 1 as it is used for a solid stream, and Fig. 2 shows it as a spray.

The nozzle-tube A does not differ in its general form from the article in common use. Internally it is identical. Externally, if made of cast metal, it is provided with two longitudinal grooves cast thereon, or, if made of thin metal, with two straps, within which is the slide B. This slide may be of thin metal, preferably of spring-brass, so that when extended its end willtend to curl over the end of the nozzle,and thus the sooner oppose its surface to the stream issuing from the orifice. It should be capable of sufficient extension to deflect the entire stream, which is thereby, as is well known, broken into drops and forms a spray. When the slide is retracted, as in Fig. 2, the stream escapes unimpeded.

This mechanism isexceedinglysimple,cheap, eflieient, and notliable to get out of order; not can its parts be mislaid or lost. Its uses are obvious. The nozzle is of any size and form to suit all sizes of hose for hydrants or pumps, and is attached thereto in the usual manner. While the water is turned on and flowing through the nozzle, it it becomes desirable to change from one form of discharge to another, the thumb is placed on the slide and it is pushed out to produce spray or drawn in to produce a solid stream.

I am aware that it is a common and wellknown device to oppose a deflector to the issuing stream of water to separate it into a thin sheet or spray; and I am aware that various forms of devices have been patented to secure this result, and I disclaim any form of deflector where the deflector is removable from the nozzle, and hence can only be conveniently applied and removed by shutting ofl' the Water, or'when it is opposed to the stream by swinging on a pivot perpendicular to the axis of the stream; but.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A hose-nozzle provided with adeflector sliding in suitable guides on the side thereof, adapted to convert the stream flowing therefrom into spray when extended, or to permit the free escape of the water as a solid stream when retracted, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the nozzle A and the slide B moving thereon, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

, PEARL CLINTON LEWIS.

\Vitnesses:

EUGENE RAYMOND, WILLIAM PALMATIER. 

